How to invoke multiple tomcat installs that run under different users?

[chrisco484]

Is it possible to install multiple tomcats, each running under different users and have a differently named service (in systemctl domain) so that we can use systemctl to control them?

[noelmcloughlin]

@chrisco484 Each user can have secondary membership of "tomcat" group in Linux.

Systemctl is different matter. Have you talked to upstream tomcat designers about your use case.

Alternative is to run as docker instance to avoid systemctl namespace collisions.